Neuroscientist at MRC Cognition an Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, studying memory, cognitive control, and mechanisms of adaptive forgetting
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2015
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Excited to be heading to #CNS2026 in Vancouver this weekend!
Come say👋 if you’re around as I will be presenting some very promising results from the first completed study of my PhD work into affective blunting conducted @mrccbu
Poster Session B, March 8, 8-10 AM (Number: B19)
Michael Anderson retweeted
Review paper arguing that the #brain has a built-in mental brake that stops unwanted thoughts. Via a fronto-temporal pathway, it relies on GABA to calm mental loops. Weak brakes may underlie #PTSD, #OCD, anxiety, and #depression nature.com/articles/s41583-0…
Michael Anderson retweeted
See also
A short thread on Prof Mary Beard's recent article in @theguardian on enforced retirement (EJRA, Employer Justified Retirement Age) at 67 in Cambridge in which those opposing the policy are called 'job-blockers'. You can find it here 👇
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Michael Anderson retweeted
Thanks Mike. Cambridge University's forced retirement policy is ageist discrimination & no different to sexism, racism & ableism. It is unlawful under the Equality Act (it fails its own justification). Cambridge didn't accept women until 1948. Time to abolish ageism in Cambridge
The University of Cambridge forcibly retires faculty each year just for turning 67. This occurs even if the person is on track to cure tuberculosis, understand autism, or develop battery tech. that solves the climate crisis. This ageist policy must go. tinyurl.com/bdfnk4ss
Michael Anderson retweeted
big thanks to @NatRevPsych for the possibility of writing a journal club and @Memory_Control (Michael Anderson) and Justin Hulbert of course for the great review on this exciting topic of adaptive memory control! 🧠 :)
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Setting up a Think/No-Think experiment from scratch? Oh, no!! 😱 Check out this generous, all-round TNT resource, prepared by my colleague Davide Nardo and @Memory_Control at @mrccbu, so you can study retrieval suppression reliably and with ease!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Very excited about this one -
In a new paper, we show that reactivating a memory unconsciously affects it differently than consciously retrieving it!
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The final version of @Memory_Control and my article "Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control" is now featured in the current issue of TiCS: cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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Throughout 2023, Mike Anderson @Memory_Control and I worked on a theory article on Neural Mechanisms of Domain-General Inhibitory Control, now out @TrendsCognSci. I've admired Mike's work forever. It's been an honor & pleasure to work on this with him. See
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Michael Anderson retweeted
Want a quick and easy-to-read summary of our recently published paper on directed forgetting? Check out my first blog! @TomRBeckers @CLEPLeuven @CommsPsychol behavepsychcommunity.springe…
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Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of memory-guided eye movements and the precision of preparatory coding in visual cortex during memory-guided attention.
Excited to share this work by the inimitable Serra Favila!
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Michael Anderson retweeted
Directed forgetting can be used to disrupt emotional memories. Participants had poorer memory for images paired with an electric shock when instructed to forget them. Physiological responses were attenuated. @Chalkia_A
@TomRBeckers
@CLEPLeuven
nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
Michael Anderson retweeted
Contrary to conventional wisdom that suppressing unwanted thoughts causes harm, researchers found benefits in training individuals in targeted thought suppression. Read more in this Q&A with Zulkayda Mamat:
cogneurosociety.org/training…
#neuroscience @Memory_Control
Michael Anderson retweeted
Thought provoking campfire session on engrams and forgetting by @TJRyan_77, chaired by @anna_beyeler in the bubble @ECNPtweets. Tomas is such a great speaker!!
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Hot off the presses
"finely wrought, thought-provoking feast for the mind.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"eye-opening journey into ... profound mysteries of mind and brain." Daniel L. Schacter
" A terrific book!”—Owen Flanagan
Michael Anderson retweeted
Delighted to share our preview of @GoshenInbal, @RefaeliRon's cool paper on engram evolution over time (drift, stability). Kudos to Asim Rashid and Ali Golbabaei!
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And the original paper.
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Always fun science in @CurrentBiology
Michael Anderson retweeted
Very proud of current and former Neurofoggies on their first publication! New meta-analysis showing reduced item-method directed forgetting in certain clinical populations.
Do you have unwanted thoughts you can't control? Everyone does, but some people have more trouble controlling them than others. Read this new publication by @jmfawcet, Dr. Emily Fawcett, Noah Pevie, Maddie Baldwin, and Chelsea Lahey: (tinyurl.com/42ved2bk) @MemorialUSci
ALT A person riding a large brain.
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Keep calm & carry on? Perhaps there is something to it.
Zulykayda Mamat and @memory_Control show how suppressing distressing thoughts improves mental health.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh529
mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/…
#ptsd #anxiety #memory #depression
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Is it bad for your mental health to suppress negative thoughts? 🤔
New research from @mrccbu @Memory_Control has shown that it may be possible — and could even be potentially beneficial — to actively suppress our fearful thoughts.
bit.ly/3Ez6lMJ
Michael Anderson retweeted
New memory paper memory out in #psynomPBR @Psychonomic_Soc!
A #metaanalysis and #megaanalysis of #ERP data to test dual vs. single process theories of recognition memory 🧠👉🏻👉🏼 rdcu.be/dgCoY
with @Simon_Kwon
and @fnim_lab, Tim Curran, Ronny Wiegand
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